England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 walk | ROCHESTER tour | Rochester walking tour (Mar 2022) Rochester 4K

It is a England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 walk around ROCHESTER, Kent

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Welcome! Tuesday 15 March 2022.
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00:54 Esplanade, Rochester
01:03 River Medway
02:28 Rochester Bridge
05:41 Esplanade
08:07 Esplanade Gardens
10:11 Rochester Castle
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/v...

12:54 Epaul Lane
13:56 Boley Hill
14:00 The Catalpa tree (150-year-old tree)
14:25 Castle Moat Graveyard
14:37 Rochester Cathedral
https://www.rochestercathedral.org/hi...

17:54 Minor Canon Row
18:42 Cloister House
20:40 King’s Rochester (Secondary School).
23:05 College Yard
23:48 Diocese of Rochester. St Nicholas Church is a former parish church.

The earliest parochial altar of St Nicholas was from the late 11th century in the cathedral nave (probably at the east end of the north aisle).

In origin the altar of St Nicholas may relate to the then well-known moving of the body of St Nicholas from Myra in southern Turkey to the new Norman church at Bari in Southern Italy in 1089.
https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/01...

It is now the offices of the Board of Education

24:44 Deanery Gate, Originally Sextry Gate of St Andrew Priory.

The Rochester diocese was founded by Justus, one of the missionaries who accompanied Augustine of Canterbury to convert the pagan southern English to Christianity in the early 7th century. As the first Bishop of Rochester, Justus was granted permission by King Æthelberht of Kent to establish a church dedicated to Andrew the Apostle (like the monastery at Rome where Augustine and Justus had set out for England) on the site of the present cathedral, which was made the seat of a bishopric.

25:44 War Memorial
26:37 High Street
27:30 Abdication House. James Ⅱ of England bronze plaque

KING JAMES II OF ENGLAND / AND KING VII OF SCOTLAND / STAYED AT THIS HOUSE AS THE GUEST OF / SIR RICHARD HEAD BEFORE EMBARKING / FOR FRANCE ON THE 23RD DECEMBER 1688 / WHEN HE FINALLY LEFT ENGLAND.
James II & VII was King of England and King of Ireland as King James II and King of Scotland as James VII. Members of Britain's political and religious elite increasingly opposed him for being pro-French and pro-Catholic, and for his designs on becoming an absolute monarch. When he produced a Catholic heir to the throne, the tension exploded, and leading nobles called on William III of Orange (his son in law and nephew) to land an invasion army from the Netherlands, which William did. King James II spent his last night as King at a house in High Street, Rochester, which became known as Abdication House, on account that in February 1689, parliament declared that James's flight constituted an abdication and William and Mary were crowned joint monarchs.
In March 1689, James landed in Ireland where, with French support, he raised an army. He was defeated by William at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690. James died in exile in Saint-Germain in France on 16 September 1701.
https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/W...

32:14 Guildhall Museum. Built in 1687.
32:53 Royal Victoria & Bull Hotel,

Rochester has grown from a small Saxon village to one of England’s finest cities.

Romans came in 43AD and made Rochester one of their most important towns by building a stronghold and a bridge over the River Medway.

It wasn’t until 1088 after the Norman invasion that Rochester had its first stone castle built on the remains of the old Roman Fort.

The then King, Rufus asked his Bishop Gundulf, an architect, to build him a stone castle and later a magnificent cathedral, which is the second oldest in the country.

Bishop Gundolf also built a leper hospital namely St. Bartholomew’s which was the oldest hospital in the country, albeit the original hospital has since disappeared.

One of Rochester most famous connections is that with Charles Dickens.
His family moved to Chatham when his was five years of age...

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMa...

Rochester was a city until losing its status as one in 1998 following the forming of Medway and failing to protect its status as a city.


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